Winners were recently announced in the New Haven Unified School District's "Recycling Poster Contest":

Kitayama Elementary School students Matthew Chan and Sky Juinio and James Logan High School senior Deborah Ojigho are among the first-place finishers in the annual city-wide recycling poster contest sponsored by the City of Union City, Allied Waste Services and Tri-CED Community Recycling.

The contest is designed to "showcase the work of talented young artists in the community whose colorful and creative designs communicate the importance of sustaining the earth and its natural resources through recycling and other conservation effort," recycling coordinator Roberto Munoz reports.